Observational Research Manager

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Observational Research Manager

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world.

Are you searching for a new, dynamic opportunity working with multiple teams to generate real world evidence supporting a wide variety of business needs? If so, we invite you to explore Amgen’s Center for Observational Research.

With a constantly increasing demand for information from regulatory and reimbursement agencies, observational research (OR) has become a critical component in drug development and commercialization. Amgen’s Center for Observational Research (CfOR) partners with internal and external teams to generate real world evidence for multiple stakeholders across the product lifecycle. CfOR contributes evidence regarding the frequency and distribution of disease or the clinical burden of disease, the natural history or clinical course of disease, the design of clinical trials, cost and utilization patterns and the safety and effectiveness of interventions.

In this vital role, the Observational Research Manager will be a key member of the Clinical Program Design team within CfOR’s Data and Analytic Center (DAC) and will be responsible for generating insights and building collaborations and capabilities to advance the use of real world evidence for clinical program design and planning. Preferably, CfOR Managers will be located on the Amgen corporate campus in Thousand Oaks, CA, but remote working opportunities may also be available.

• Design and execute RWE studies to support evidence generation for clinical trial design and planning, such as identifying the appropriate patient population, assessing the burden and distribution of disease and disease phenotyping
• Execute and manage research projects involving literature reviews and the analysis of multiple types of data including medical claims, electronic health records and prospective observational cohort studies.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of innovative analytic methods, capabilities and tools to enable rapid, scalable and reproducible RWE
• Communicate significant scientific information to a variety of audiences

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The qualified professional we seek is a Research Manager with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree or

Master s degree and 3 years of related research and scientific experience or

Bachelor s degree and 5 years of related research and scientific experience or

Bachelor s degree and 10 years of related research and scientific experience or

High School diploma / GED and 12 years of related research and scientific experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Epidemiology or other subject with high observational research content.
• Experience in the design, execution and analysis of observation research studies within Pharmaceutical and/or Public Health settings.
• Experience in research to support drug development.
• Experience working with secondary data systems including administrative claims, EMR and registries.
• Experience in observational research project planning and management.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Proven experience…